• 한국GIS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국GIS학회 2008년도 공동추계학술대회
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• pp.153-161
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• 2008

Agriculture and forest are basis for livelihood in Nepal while both sectors constitute around 40 percent of the national product and over two-thirds of the economically active population is dependent on agriculture. However, radical changes in land use, depletion in crops production and food availability are major threats due to loss of soil fertilityand severe environmental degradation. In this study, we used time series data from 1986/87 to 2005/06 about food crop production and population published by Government of Nepal, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and Central Bureau of Statistics. Descriptive statistics and ArcGIS were used to assess and map the food security status of Nepalese Terai based on the local food demand and supply system. Food supply to demand ratio(FSDR) was the main idea of assessment. Our results showed that out of 20 districts, only 8 districts were categorised under secured food districts whereas 5 districts were still under food unsecured situation. The analysis further revealed that 7 districts had faced food deficit more than 8-16 times during the last 20 year periods. Data further showed that there was surplus food supply relative to the requirements dictated by FSDR. However, the average FSDR was less than 1.2(less than 20% surplus) exploring fact that most of the districts were not producing sufficient food to cope up the food shock and after 1995 it was relatively stagnant. Our prediction reveals that food supply in Terai even in the future would remain at almost the same level as now, and there will not more than 16-17% surplus by 2021 considering medium vibrant population growth. The findings thus, indicate that Terai may not be a food secure region in the future, even though the region is considered as a food storage house of Nepal. In addition, this paper suggests ways to make future comprehensive case studies more widely comparable in Terai, Nepal.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.325-327
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• 2013

Objective: To differentiate between benign and malignant hyperparathyroidism on the basis of excretion of HCG and its malignant isoforms in urine. Materials and Methods: This hospital based study was carried out using data retrieved from the register maintained in Manipal Teaching Hospital from $1^{st}$ January, 2008 and $31^{st}$ August, 2012. The variables collected were urinary HCG and HCG malignant isoform, calcium and parathyroid hormone. Preceding the study, approval was obtained from the institutional research ethical committee. Analysis was by descriptive statistics and testing of hypothesis. A p-value of <0.05 (two-tailed) was used to establish statistical significance. Results: Out of the 20 cases, 10 were primary hyperparathyroidism and the remainder were parathyroid carcinomas. The urinary HCG $6.1{\pm}0.6$ fmol/mgCr was with in normal range in benign hyperthyroidism but was markedly elevated in three cases of malignant hyperparathyroidism (maximum value of excretion in urine for HCG was 2323 fmol/mgCr). The excretion of malignant isoform of HCG in urine was 0 in benign hyperparathyroidsm and in four cases of malignant hyperparathyroidism which fell into the category of persistantly low HCG. The maximum excretion of the malignant isoform of HCG in urine was 1.8, in the category of very high HCG. Calcium and parathyroid hormone were mildly raised in benign parathyroidism, while parathyroid hormone was markedly elevated in cases of malignant hyperparathyroidism falling into the category of very high HCG. Conclusions: The excretion of urinary HCG in urine has the ability to distinguish between parathyroid adenomas and carcinomas and thus has potential to become a marker of disease progression in malignant parathyroid disease.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.421-427
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• 2012

Nepal is one of the least urbanized countries in the world where more than 80% of the total population live in rural areas. In recent years, the rate of urbanization became rampant which ultimately accelerated immense pressure on municipal services, especially on managing the ever increasing amount of wastes. Due to lack of technology, infrastructure and financial capacity management of increasing amount of solid waste has become a major challenge in municipalities of Nepal. The indiscriminate dumping of solid wastes already affected the urban environment by creating a serious occupational health and environmental hazard to the vicinity of the dumping sites. However, there is great possibility of recovering methane from the landfill sites since the typical Nepalese municipal solid waste contains more than 65% of organic wastes. Despite having enormous potential of generating electricity from hydropower, Nepal is facing acute shortage of energy. Therefore, comprehensive scientific research and development is necessary for making solid waste to environmentally friendly by converting waste to the energy.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.109-114
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• 1993

This study was divised to observe an Inhibitory effect toward a lipolytic action of toxohormone-L from large root and small root Nepal pseudo ginseng (NPG ; Nepal products) components by water extract and ethanol precipitate in vitro. Toxohormone-L is known to be a lipolytic factor that was partially purified from the ascites fluid of Sarcoma 180-bearing mice and of patients with hepatoma. The inhibitory effect that inhibited the lipolytic action of toxohormone-L by ethanol Precipitate component of large root NPG (mean 55.5%) was higher (mean 1.37 times) than that of water extract component in final reaction concentration of 500 and 1, 000ug/ml, on the other side inhibitory effect of water extract component in small root NPG (mean 55.5%) was higer (mean 1.14 times) than that of ethanol precipitate component. In a way inhibitory effect of precipitate component In large root NPG(47.6%), when final reaction concentration of sample were 1, 000ug/ml, was about 40% lower than that of Korean red ginseng.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.11-20
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• 2013

This study extends the extant scope of understanding investment decision, beyond the dominant 'technical' emphasis on the application of discounted cash flow techniques. The research methodology draws the positivist and interpretive research paradigms. It uses a deductive approach, survey strategy and principal component analysis for the analysis. Three key sets of factors emerged as important in the investment decision process in the hydropower sector. They are: group consensus (framing), influences on own judgment (heuristics), and application of knowledge & experience (intuition). The use of purposive and convenient sampling might have some unintended impact on the findings. Consequently, any generalizations of the findings to a wider population of organizations and managers need to be made with care. It is hoped that this paper will encourage other researchers to go beyond the analytic techniques of investment appraisal that have dominated investment decision research and seek to balance the emphasis by focusing on human involvement and behavioral aspects of investment decision.

• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.155-157
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• 2004

We isolated Rice dwarf virus (RDV) from infected plants in rice fields (Korea, Japan, China, the Philippines and Nepal) and analyzed their genomic dsRNAs by polyacrylamide gel eletrophoresis. The genomic dsRNAs of the isolates showed distinct electrophoretic mobility profiles. The S12 coding to nonstructural protein of Korean isolate (RDV-Kr) was further analyzed by sequencing. The S12 of RDV-Kr was 1,066bp long and coded for a protein composed of 312 amino acids including three open reading frames of P12, P120Pa and P120Pb. The sequence identities were 96% and 98.6% with Japanese isolates (H, AN), 94.7% with Nepalese isolate (NEL), 94% with Chinese isolate (CK) and the Philippines isolate (P).

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.300-306
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• 2008

Nepal is rich country in terms of its vast array of biological diversity. The relationship between local communities and the biological diversity in Nepal is a very entangle one, whereby two-thirds of our population are heavily dependent upon the biodiversity for their survival. The destruction of biodiversity signifies the destruction of people's livelihoods and survival. Biodiversity and genetic resources conservation has been a most significant part of the Nepalese society due to its socio-economic and cultural importance and provides the human race trees for timber, fuel, food, industrial raw materials, pharmaceuticals, beverages and environmental stabilization. Threats to biodiversity at global level is of greater concern, specially, human activities are the greatest factor currently affecting biodiversity, through the use of natural resources by industry, agriculture, hunting, and energy generation.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.123-144
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• 2016

This paper investigates the linkages between returns both in foreign exchange and stock markets, and uncertainties in two markets using daily data for the period of 16 July 2004 to 30 June 2014 in Nepalese economy. Four hypotheses are tested about how uncertainty influences the stock index and exchange rates. From the empirical results, a bivariate EGARCH-M model is the best to explain the volatility in the two markets. There is a negative relationship from the exchange rates return to stock price return. Empirical results do provide strong empirical confirmation that negative effect of stock index uncertainty and positive effect of exchange rates uncertainty on average stock index. GARCH-in-mean variables in AR modeling are significant and shows that there is positive effect of exchange rates uncertainty and negative effect of stock index uncertainty on average exchange rates. Stock index shocks have longer lived effects on uncertainty in the stock market than exchange rates shock have on uncertainly in the foreign exchange market. The effect of the last period's shock, volatility is more sensitive to its own lagged values.

• 청정기술
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.198-204
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• 2021

본 연구는 네팔산 자트로파 오일을 원료로 사용하여 바이오디젤을 제조하는 불균일 촉매를 사용하는 2-step 공정에 초점을 맞추었다. 첫 번째 단계로, 네팔산 자트로파 오일에 함유된 FFA의 에스테르화 반응에서 Amberlyst-15의 재사용 횟수가 FFA의 에스테르화 반응에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. 두 번째로, 돌로마이트 비드 촉매를 적용한 전이에스테르화 반응의 scale-up 가능성을 확인하고자 하였다. 네팔산 자트로파 씨앗 120 kg을 이용하여 30 L (27 kg)의 자트로파 오일을 얻었으며 씨앗으로부터의 오일 수득율은 약 25.0 wt%이다. 자트로파 오일의 산가와 FFA 함량은 각각 11.3 mgKOH g^-1 및 5.65%로 측정되었다. 비드형태의 Amberlyst-15 촉매를 사용하여 자트로파 오일의 에스테르화 반응을 수행한 결과, 신규 Amberlyst-15 촉매를 사용한 경우 반응 생성물의 산가는 0.26 mgKOH g^-1까지 낮출 수 있었다. Amberlyst-15 촉매의 재생을 거듭할수록 Amberlyst-15 촉매가 비활성화되어 에스테르화 반응 성능이 저하됨을 알 수 있다. 비활성화의 원인은 촉매가 부서짐과 동시에 불순물이 침적되기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 자트로파 오일의 에스테르화 반응에 Amberlyst-15 촉매를 5회까지 반복하여 재사용할 수 있음을 알 수 있다. 두 번째 단계인 전이에스테르화 반응에는 돌로마이트 촉매를 비드 형태로 대량 제조하여 사용하였다. 돌로마이트 비드 촉매가 90 g 장착된 spinning catalyst basket 반응기에서 전처리된 자트로파 오일의 전이에스테르화 반응을 통해서 반응 시작 후 2 h 후에 바이오 디젤 89.1 wt%에 도달하였으며, 이는 동일한 조건에서 soybean oil 의 전이에스테르화 반응 실험 결과와 거의 유사하였다.

• 청정기술
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2024

비식용 작물인 네팔산 Jatropha 씨앗으로부터 추출한 식물성 오일을 원료로 사용하고, 에스테르화 반응과 전이에스테르화 반응으로 구성된 2-step 공정을 거쳐서 바이오디젤로 전환하였다. Jatropha 오일에 함유되어 있는 유리지방산과 메탄올과의 에스테르화 반응에 Amberlyst-15 촉매를 적용하였으며, 자트로파 오일의 산가를 11.0으로부터 0.26 mgKOH/g까지 낮추었다. 산가가 0.26 mgKOH/g인 Jatropha 오일과 메탄올을 원료로 사용하고 NaOH/γ-Al₂O₃ 촉매를 사용하여 전이에스테르화 반응을 통해서 바이오디젤을 제조하였다. NaOH 담지량이 3 wt%에서 25 wt%로 증가함에 따라 비표면적은 129 m²/g에서 28 m²/g으로, 기공 부피는 0.249 m³/g에서 0.129 cm³/g으로 감소하였다. 또한, NaOH의 담지량이 증가할수록 NaOH/γ-Al₂O₃ 촉매의 염기점의 양과 세기가 동시에 증가하였다. NaOH/γ-Al₂O₃ 촉매의 최적 NaOH 담지량은 12 wt%인 것을 확인하였다. NaOH/γ-Al₂O₃ 촉매를 이용한 Jatropha oil의 전이에스테르화 반응에서 최적 온도를 65 ℃로 선정하였다. 교반속도가 150 RPM 이하의 조건에서는 전이에스테르화 반응 속도가 외부 물질 전달의 영향을 받았으나, 그 이상의 교반속도에서는 외부 물질 전달의 영향이 크지 않았다.